Head of Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Spearhead the transformation of the platform and organization alongside the current team.

• Oversee infrastructure, architecture, and vendor relationships.

• Transition from the traditional handoff between product managers and engineers to a model that fosters integrated collaboration between engineering and product teams.

• Facilitate direct engagement between engineers and business/domain experts.

• Shift code development to LLMs with automated quality assurance, starting with lower-risk areas and eventually advancing to critical financial components.

• Recruit engineers who can effectively communicate with stakeholders and pose relevant questions; may onboard 1–2 individuals who align with the vision.

• Prioritize internal operational efficiency over establishing an independent product or market vision.

• Months 1–3: consolidate customer, financial, and manual data flows into a unified framework.

• Months 4–6: develop an agentic infrastructure that empowers non-engineering teams to initiate prompts, create tools, and execute workflows.

• Collaborate closely with founders and report directly to the CEO.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in developing financial systems, including ledgers, reconciliation, processing, gateways, or double-entry accounting.

• Strong background in data architecture.

• Capability to maintain a comprehensive understanding of infrastructure, architecture, and vendor management.

• Senior engineering professional with a track record of successful outcomes.

• Awareness that code quality and thorough reviews are essential, with a willingness to innovate work processes.

• Business-centric thinking and effective communication skills.

• Mature, collaborative, and transparent work style; prepared to make bold yet calculated decisions.

• Background in payments or acquiring is not mandatory; any experience with financial systems is acceptable.

• Preferred: experience in rebuilding or transforming a team.

• Preferred: located in London.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fixed pay for the first year.

• From year two, shadow equity linked to P&L performance, with a pathway to actual equity; specifics to be negotiated.

• Opportunity to work directly with the founders, reporting to the CEO.

• Inherit and reshape a team of approximately 15 engineers.

• AI-native environment where non-engineers can create their own tools.